Here In The Coastal Countryside

Here in the coastal countryside by Warrnambool Far south of Millstreet Town where i went to school Time has left me looking older and gray One who has known of a far better physical day Still i feel happy in this beautiful place Where To many mine is a stranger's face Though of some quite nice people of i am coming to know Who happen to be blessed of the inner glow Claraghatlea my first home-place today lives in me In my flights of fancy the old fields i see And see the brown trout in the clear pools of the rill Flowing from high Claramore by Clara Hill In fields where i grew to love Nature when i was a boy And learning of her ways today i enjoy Here in the home-place of koala and gray kangaroo And long billed corella and yellow tailed black cockatoo.